An owner of property in Iron and Ashland counties that was the site of a contentious proposal to mine iron ore is trying to resurrect plans for the mine, an Iron County economic development official said.

Officials of La Pointe Iron Co., one of the owners of the property that Gogebic Taconite unsuccessfully sought to develop as a massive open pit mine, met with local representatives in Hurley on Wednesday to discuss reviving the plans.

Kelly Klein, director of development for the Iron County Development Zone, said he and others met with La Pointe representatives, who told them they are eager to find another developer for the site.

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That statistics you seek would be an evolutionary statistic not a current one. Your argument makes no sense. Why don't you simply pick up a city map and look where all the two parent stable income earners in Milwaukee already live - they live on the firnges - where do you obviously think they'll move to next?

Undercover - I let my school board & superintendent determine that. Apparently right now thanks to Governor Pinocchio & his R- kangaroo legislature, he's forced the boss and the board into a position of no choice. Whatever the boss says - goes.

We need Mayor Tom Barrett to weigh in on this topic a bit more, respective of the situation within his own marriage.

Don Walker (or any competent news reporter), please ask Mayor Barrett about his wife working as a school teacher in Wauwatosa, which does not have a residency requirement.QUESTIONS to ask include but are not limited to:- Mr. Mayor, if Wauwatosa establishes a residency requirement, will you resign as mayor and move to Wauwatosa?

- Mr. Mayor, isn't it disingenuine of you to tout the residency requirement for the City of Milwaukee while your wife herself works in another city?

- Mr. Mayor, what significant data can you present that shows having a residency requirement is beneficial?

NOTE TO DON WALKER:Don, regarding plural/singular agreement, please have your editors check your work more carefully. Here is an example from you article:"Many (plural) of the emails (plural) came from people (plural) who did not want their (plural) name (SINGULAR but should be plural; names) used."

I reject the notion that lifting the residency rule will hurt Milwaukee. I think it will improve Milwaukee overall. Full disclosure, I am required to live in Milwaukee for work.

It will improve Milwaukee immedialtely by bringing in the resources of outside the city, obviously starting with human resources, especially in education where it will be needed most.

New people coming into the city comes with more exposure to the city outside of events many attend only once every few years. If my impression of Milwaukee was how busy traffic was during summerfest, I would not want to go into downtown or the third ward either.

But those new employees that commute to work will come to understand not only the problems that they are helping solve but also stories of gems like hidden delis, corner restuarants, boutique's, and quiet parts of the city that the people that live here love.

People that live in the city roll their eyes at comments about one way streets, parking, and crime. They are made by people who do not know or understand Milwaukee. Eventually, the new employees, most likely teachers, from outside Milwaukee and Milwaukee County will be encouraging their friends and family to come see what they found.

Undercover - News Flash - Property values across the nation dropped over the past 5 years. Like the rest of America, Milwaukee's are now on a slow recovery aws evidenced by the most recent assessment indicating a 5% gain from last year in Fair Market value. I'd like to ride out the rest of it with the rest of my fellow city residency neighbors who knew how to read and understand the first line on their job application. I have no problem with those who don't like it and want to leave - I even encourage them to do so.

I do not think the residency rule should be changed, unless it is linked to a work tax for ppl who live outside of the city, and work here. That is the public policy fix that other cities adopted if they abandoned residency rules. Then the commuters help pay for the police, and all other services that they use. It is not realistic to believe that the racism and classism that make this metro area one of the most hyper segregated in the country will end with an end in the residency requirement, so this proposed policy change's impact will be mostly negative on the city and the people who live here.

Undercover Lib99: Madison hardly has the population dynamics as alluded to by mglabere and you know it. Milwaukee is 39% African American in a city with a population of 595,000 Madison is 7% African American with a population of @265,000. Hardly the sae dynamics at work creating what everyone knows is the most supersegregated city in America.

The city will not rise or fall even if all of the city’s' employees left. Right now the Police and Fire union members make up less than 1% of the population of the city. They actually make up less than 0.43 percent of the population. There is controversy about the number of MPS employees (teachers vs. all MPS employees), but let us SWAG it and say 6,000-7,000 employees. That would bring the total number up just under 10,000, or less than 1.67% of Milwaukee’s population. If 1.67% or less of the population relocating outside of the city will cause it to fail then you should be ticked off at Mayor Barrett, and other city officials (the Aldermen like Joe Dudzik, and Michael Murphy ) that have put the city into that state of affairs, not the people that protect the city and citizens every day.

Just because a resident is "ticked off at Mayor Barrett, and other city officials" doesn't mean that he should be able to pack up and leave. How about working together to change the course of the city instead of turning your backs on it.

That is the best reason after doing what is best for you children/family that there is. If the population leaves then you know right away that what the politicians are doing is not working. Everyone likes to bring up Detroit, so here goes; Democratic Party control of that city for over 92 years, and over 500,000 people have left the city. That is a very clear indicator to even the most mentally challenged that a new course needs to be struck, because doing the same old thing Democrat after Democrat isn't working. In fact I believe a definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over hoping for a different outcome. Mayor Barrett and the Aldermen have, and continue to run this city into the ground. If Milwaukee goes down it will be because of them, not the few public employees that choose to relocate!

This is nothing more than Scott Walker sticking it to Milwaukee again for political revenge for Milwaukee not supporting republican candidates. Walker could care less about Milwaukee, or for that matter the state in general. He is only concerned about pleasing his rich donors. Let the local communites decide whether or not they have residency requirements.

This is a local issue. Municipalities and school districts have to make the decision about how a residency rule will affect the quality of employees they attract. Similarly, potential employees must weigh whether living in a community is worthwhile in order to work there.

Undercover - you obviously have no idea what the classrooms are like with all the inexperienced wonderful new prodigies who are quickly discovering they have no future and no raises and no job security - just like those who are being forced out in front of them.

MPS is a joke, they are at least a full year of education behind the suburban schools. With that being said, I say the blame falls on the parents, not the teachers. Irresponsible Parents raise Irresponsible children.

ThomasNast-If MPS does have the best and the brightest teachers (and I’m not going to weigh in either way on that), then they are being misused. Our MPS principals as well as the other MPS administrators need to regroup and come up with a new plan on how to affect a positive change of the MPS school environment. For starters do away with the bussing plan. Forced relocation of students from their neighborhood schools to across town schools is helping to kill any parental involvement. Parents these days are very busy; many times with both parents working. Having a child’s school located on the other side of town makes it difficult to be directly involved in the education process with their teacher. This is especially true for lower income families that have challenges with transportation. If their child’s school is within walking distance, then it makes it that much easier to connect with school teachers and representatives. Also the significant savings or drastically reducing the amount of busses could be put back into the schools themselves. Just one possible solution, I’m sure others have many more, some similar.

MPS has AMAZING people under her roof. But, they are drowning in classes pushing 50, with so much pressure to look at the numbers for the tests, that very little matters. The materials are not available. The specials are going the way of the dodo birds. Families in our schools need more than our teachers can provide. Our teachers play the role of parent, counselor, nurse, social worker, mediator...all while trying to teach in mean time. The public is so unsupportive it is ridiculous.

You look it up. Provide the link. There's more than 6,000 in MPS alone that are bound by residency and last time I checked many of the employees had spouses and even children to boot. Let's cherry pick just like Charley teaches us and pretend they don't exist so we can fabricate a stronger fictitious argument.

Nasty- nice try with your made up info. Last year under 7,000 people received a pay check from the city of Milwaukee. Including MPS. FYI MPS does not have a 10-1 student/teacher ratio??? 86,000 (students) (9,000) staff/teachers

UndercoverLib99 : Here's 6,400 alone - not including maintenance employees as well as other non-classroom or central office staff positions. Since you can't seem to research anything yourself , I'll provide you the instructions ' click Annual Report Fiscal year 2011-2012. Plenty of information for you to digest.http://mpsportal.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/portal/server.pt/comm/mps_home/335As for your city employee claim - you are off by a minimum of 1,000 on the low side, but hey what's a few thousand when you rely on stretching the truth to embellish your lies?http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/dataondemand/33531859.htmlI'm certain none of these city employees has a spouse and none of them have children either as your claim that this is only an impact on employees issue.Assuming the average American household - 1 spouse 2 children, the city number grows from 8-9,000 MPS 7,000 city employees = 16,000-17,000 x (3 - family members) for a total city impact of at or above 50,000 residents helping to stabilize the community. Within 10 years Detroit eliminating residency 53% of their residents simply left the city. St. Louis dropped theirs 8 years ago and so far the total is 34% leaving the city.

You obviously not only cant and wont read - Math is a challenge as well. 6,500 teachers other school staff totalling 9,000 (which you previously denied) city staff greater than 7,000 (which you cited at 6,000). 9,000 7,000 =16,000. As I clearly indicated and you refuse to accept. Most of these people have families. As an average typical American family of 4 (Employee spouse 2 children) would be 16,000 employees x 3 others who live with each of them = 48,000 16,000 = actually 64,000 so you are correct - my estimates are most lilkely a bit low for how many people make up residency and just how big of a part of the fiscal impact dropping it would be to Milwaukee.

ThomasNast-I'm worried about how angry you are; it's not healthy. Every time you post there is never a positive, rational argument. It's personal attack after Personal attack. You know that when you debate that the scorers deduct points for that. PO's and FF's don't need or want special treatment, but they do want and need the same freedom that everyone else enjoys and seems to forget is a hard won RIGHT not privilege. PO’s and FF’s will still be the consummate professionals that they always have been. Where they or their families live has no bearing on how they perform their duties. Duty is doing what is right whether it is popular or not, and even if nobody is there to thank you. The brave men and women of the Police and Fire departments do this every day, and that won’t change if some choose to live outside the city. Thank you Governor Walker for doing your duty as governor, and helping out those STATWIDE that are in an impossible situation!!

Thomas Nast - as I read through this, I find that you really resort to snide (not even sarcastic) comments for much of your commentary. If that is how the people of this city are being represented, why would people want to be here. MPS is broken it needs to be fixed. The numbers do not reflect the actual classrooms and we know it . But, people are not going to abandon their homes to move to the suburbs. Their credit would not allow them the life they desire. Make Milwaukee as attractive as possible, but allow people to stay here by choice. NOT hold them hostage. We all know what the job market is like. "If you don't like it, leave" is just not viable in today's job market and we know that. how about a civil discussion and less passive-aggressive snipes?